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ALBERT ENSOR, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 30, 1908.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Serial No. 424,110.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT ENson, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toys; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an inexpensive, simple and amusing article of manufacture, which may be o erated so as to give the appearance, first, o a hen on her nest, and, second, of an egg in the nest opening and revealing the chick.

The invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a front view of the device showing certain parts in their normal or first osition; 2 is a horizontal sectional p an view taken in a lane just above what represents the egg in 1 Fig. 3 is a view similar to 1, but showing the parts in their second position; Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional lan view of Fig. 3, the plane of section being substantially the same as in Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a view also substantially similar to Fi 1 but showing the parts in their third pos1- tion; Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional lan view taken in substantially the same p ane as Figs. 2 and 4; and, Fig. 7 and 8 are vertical sectional views taken through the egg and showing the parts in the position they occupy in Figs. 3 and 5, respectively.

a is a box having an opening b in one side thereof which may be covered by a iece of transparent lass or the like c. On t e bottom of the ox is arranged a paste-board bracket d carrying the fixed lower half e of what represents an egg shell and having pivotally connected to it the upper half of the egg shell the upper half is arranged to swing Aback on its pivot into the position shown in Fig. 8, and when in this position will reveal the chick g, which may be ictorially shown on a piece of aste-board carried by the bracket d. T e upper half of the shell is normally held in the closed position by the rubber band i, which extends up the front of bracket d across the hinge or pivot for the upper shell and then up the'front of the back wall j of the upper half of the shell, its ends being secured to the parts d and k is a pull connected with a loop l which extends through two holes m in one side of the box, the loop carrying within the box the cross-piece n, also formed, preferably of paste-board, the loop is connected with an elastic band o attached to the opposite side of the box, and'also attached to the loop is a cord p vwhich extends through an eyelet g and is thereupon connected with the u er half f of the shell, the length of this corcbeing such that it does not operate on part f until the elastic band o has been considerably extended.

r is a lever which may be formed at its free end to represent a sitting hen s and which is carried by the pivot piece t, j ournaled in the front and back walls of the box the pivot end of lever r is straight, as at u, on the side adjoining the egg (Figs. 1 and 5) and is slightly beveled or rounded, as at fo, on the other side; in the position indicated in Figs. 1 and 5, in which position the lever is normally held by the spring w coiled about the ivot piece t and having its ends engaging the ever and back wall of the box, the ivot endr of said lever projects down throug the loop l. The free end of the lever is thrust forward, as best shown in Figs. 4 and 8, so that when the lever assumes the ositioii shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the lien s will be positioned in front of the egg.

In operation, the parts being first in the position shown in Fig. 1, when the pull 7c is drawn outwardly the cross-piece fnl engages the straight edge u of lever r and thus turns the lever on its pivot, against the tension of spring w, so that the hen is brought o posite t e opening b and in front of the egg (Fig. 3). On further drawing the pull outwardly, the hen is held in the position shown in Fig. 3 until the crossiece clears the straight edge u of lever r, w ereupon the spring w will return the lever r to its original position. On still further drawing outwardly on the pull the cord p is pulled taut and draws up the ulplper haf of the shell, thus revealing the c ck. Now on releasing the pull slowl the egg will close under the tension of the e astic band i, while the cross-piece, as the loo assumes its original position, will pass ack relatively to the lever, wiping around its beveled or rounded edge.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination of a box having a sight opening, a movable part f disposed Within the box opposite the sight o enin'g,

and normally held in one position and orming one member of a changeable pictorial representation, an actuating device, a normally slack cord connecting said device and the part f, and a part r adapted to move to a position op osite to the opening and controlled by said vice and forming another member of said changeable pictorial representation, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a box having a sight o ening, a -movable part f disposed Within t e box and normally held in one position and forming one member of a changeable pictorial rep'res'entation, a normally retracted actuating device, a normally slack cord connecting said device and the part f, and a part r adapted to move to a position opposite to the opening and controlled by said device and forming another member of opposite to said opening, said lever being nor- I mally held retracted but having one end projecting into the path of movement of a part of the actuating device and forming another member -of said changeable pictorial representation, substantially as described.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of March, 1908.

ALBERT EN SOR.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, WM. D. BELL. 

